27 January 2010 ~ 11 Comments

Windows Mobile Font Problem – a better solution

Nerd

For those of you who have the problem of using SIkhi to the Max or Gurbani Anywhere on your windows mobile phone and the gurmukhi fonts screw your phone up – Good news! I have an easier solution than the one in my last post.

Instead of mucking about in the registry and lots of third-party programs and nonsense, just download the attached zip file which contains modified versions of the fonts, and replace the ones that come with those applications.

Clearer instructions:

  1. Install STTM/GA
  2. Delete GURAKHAR.ttf and WebAkharThick.ttf from /windows/Fonts (on your mobile device)
  3. Copy the files from this post into /windows/Fonts (which have the exact same names as the ones you deleted)
  4. Reboot your device

I would really appreciate comments letting me know if this did or did not work for you!

download

Download: Fix Windows Mobile Fonts
Version: 0.1
Updated: January 27, 2010
Size: 51.6 KB

11 Responses to “Windows Mobile Font Problem – a better solution”

  1. S Singh 30 January 2010 at 9:51 am Permalink

    Singh, you’re a genius. I’ve been looking for a solution for this for years! Well done. What did you change on the files?? Thanks!!

  2. Ravinder Singh 13 February 2010 at 7:12 am Permalink

    Fathe jee!!

    Its worked a treat! Thanks so much paaji! One problem though, when searching sources other than Guru Granth Sahib I get boxes come up for every akhar I type on GA.

    Is there a fix?

    Thanks

  3. Sikh Nerd 13 February 2010 at 1:29 pm Permalink

    What version of GA are you using? What phone, os and does it have a hardware keyboard?

  4. Ravinder Singh 14 February 2010 at 12:45 pm Permalink

    GA 202 on HTC HD2 (touchscreen) win mob 6.5. Sri Dasam granth and BGV worked on when before I installed the new fonts above. I get boxes with the GA keyboard and english letters if I use the HTC keyboard.

    Thanks

  5. Ravinder Singh 15 February 2010 at 6:05 am Permalink

    Its ok Singh saab, all sorted, didn’t realise there was a newer GA version so I’ve now updated and its all working fine! Thank again for the fonts.

  6. Tajinder 17 February 2010 at 12:51 pm Permalink

    WJKK WJKF

    Thanks a lot Singh Ji for putting this tweak up

    kind regards

    God bless

  7. Ravinder Singh 21 February 2010 at 3:07 pm Permalink

    Singh sahib, I’m getting the font problem again with the new GA version. What am I doing wrong?

  8. Sikh Nerd 22 February 2010 at 9:20 am Permalink

    If you’ve re-installed (or upgraded) GA to the latetst version, you will have to re-do the fix as the installer replaces the fonts.

    Just download the file in this post and do it again :)

  9. Ravinder Singh 22 February 2010 at 9:25 am Permalink

    I did, as I had them saved on my SD card previously, will try the whole thing again from scratch and let you know.

  10. Rajdeep Singh 1 March 2010 at 12:13 am Permalink

    Is there is solution for reading gurbani on Blackberry except than PDF files?

  11. Sikh Nerd 1 March 2010 at 11:30 am Permalink

    Not as far as I know, however I don’t have a Blackberry, nor have much experience with them.


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